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CVE-2018-14653

Heap-based Buffer Overflow

Published: Oct 31, 2018 | Modified: Feb 12, 2023
CVSS 3.x
8.8
HIGH
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.x
6.5 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
6.5 MODERATE
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Ubuntu
MEDIUM
Additional information
NVDhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-14653
CWEhttps://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/122.html

The Gluster file system through versions 4.1.4 and 3.12 is vulnerable to a heap-based buffer overflow in the __server_getspec function via the gf_getspec_req RPC message. A remote authenticated attacker could exploit this to cause a denial of service or other potential unspecified impact.

Weakness

A heap overflow condition is a buffer overflow, where the buffer that can be overwritten is allocated in the heap portion of memory, generally meaning that the buffer was allocated using a routine such as malloc().

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Gluster_storage Redhat 3.0.0 (including) 3.1.2 (including)
Gluster_storage Redhat 4.1.0 (including) 4.1.4 (including)
Native Client for RHEL 6 for Red Hat Storage RedHat glusterfs-0:3.12.2-25.el6 *
Native Client for RHEL 7 for Red Hat Storage RedHat glusterfs-0:3.12.2-25.el7 *
Red Hat Gluster Storage 3.4 for RHEL 6 RedHat glusterfs-0:3.12.2-25.el6rhs *
Red Hat Gluster Storage 3.4 for RHEL 6 RedHat redhat-storage-server-0:3.4.1.0-1.el6rhs *
Red Hat Gluster Storage 3.4 for RHEL 7 RedHat glusterfs-0:3.12.2-25.el7rhgs *
Red Hat Gluster Storage 3.4 for RHEL 7 RedHat redhat-storage-server-0:3.4.1.0-1.el7rhgs *
Red Hat Virtualization 4 for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 RedHat glusterfs-0:3.12.2-25.el7 *
Red Hat Virtualization 4 for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 RedHat imgbased-0:1.0.29-1.el7ev *
Red Hat Virtualization 4 for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 RedHat redhat-release-virtualization-host-0:4.2-7.3.el7 *
Red Hat Virtualization 4 for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 RedHat redhat-virtualization-host-0:4.2-20181026.0.el7_6 *
Glusterfs Ubuntu bionic *
Glusterfs Ubuntu cosmic *
Glusterfs Ubuntu esm-apps/bionic *
Glusterfs Ubuntu esm-apps/xenial *
Glusterfs Ubuntu trusty *
Glusterfs Ubuntu trusty/esm *
Glusterfs Ubuntu xenial *

Potential Mitigations

  • Use automatic buffer overflow detection mechanisms that are offered by certain compilers or compiler extensions. Examples include: the Microsoft Visual Studio /GS flag, Fedora/Red Hat FORTIFY_SOURCE GCC flag, StackGuard, and ProPolice, which provide various mechanisms including canary-based detection and range/index checking.
  • D3-SFCV (Stack Frame Canary Validation) from D3FEND [REF-1334] discusses canary-based detection in detail.
  • Run or compile the software using features or extensions that randomly arrange the positions of a program’s executable and libraries in memory. Because this makes the addresses unpredictable, it can prevent an attacker from reliably jumping to exploitable code.
  • Examples include Address Space Layout Randomization (ASLR) [REF-58] [REF-60] and Position-Independent Executables (PIE) [REF-64]. Imported modules may be similarly realigned if their default memory addresses conflict with other modules, in a process known as “rebasing” (for Windows) and “prelinking” (for Linux) [REF-1332] using randomly generated addresses. ASLR for libraries cannot be used in conjunction with prelink since it would require relocating the libraries at run-time, defeating the whole purpose of prelinking.
  • For more information on these techniques see D3-SAOR (Segment Address Offset Randomization) from D3FEND [REF-1335].

References

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